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3232Male suffers life-threatening injuries after shooting in northwest end of cityhttp://worldnewsweekly.ca/male-suffers-life-threatening-injuries-after-shooting-in-northwest-end-of-city/
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 03:37:22 +0000http://worldnewsweekly.ca/male-suffers-life-threatening-injuries-after-shooting-in-northwest-end-of-city/A male victim has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a shooting took place in the northwest end of the city on Tuesday. The incident took place at around 8 p.m. near Keele Street and Ingram Drive. No information on any possible suspects has been released in connection with this case. Officers are continuing to investigate in the area. Source link #canadiannews #worldnews #headlinenews and stories from around the world USA Today News Headlines [su_feed url=”http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/usatoday-NewsTopStories” limit=”20″] USA News Headlines [su_feed url=”http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_us.rss” limit=”20″] ABC NEWS Headlines [su_feed url=”http://feeds.abcnews.com/abcnews/usheadlines”Read More

]]>Canadian Blood Services calls for donorshttp://worldnewsweekly.ca/canadian-blood-services-calls-for-donors/
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:38:00 +0000http://worldnewsweekly.ca/canadian-blood-services-calls-for-donors/Amanda Taylor knows how important it is for people to donate blood after her husband Chris was in a serious motorcycle crash on Warman Road 10 years ago. “If my husband didn’t have people donating blood in that blood bank there’s no way the doctors or nurses would’ve even had a chance to save his life.” Chris has been in and out of hospital ever since, needing blood or platelets each time. Canadian Blood Services is asking people to book appointments to donate blood and blood products to ensure they’reRead More

]]>Federal government introduces new impaired driving lawshttp://worldnewsweekly.ca/federal-government-introduces-new-impaired-driving-laws/
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:23:00 +0000http://worldnewsweekly.ca/federal-government-introduces-new-impaired-driving-laws/It’s been 20 years since an impaired driver injured two of Lisa Lindahl’s daughters, but the memory is no less painful. “We are very lucky they are alive. But it has become a life goal now to stop impaired driving,” said Lisa Lindahl, director of victims services with MADD Regina. Now the director of victims services for MADD Regina, Lindahl welcomes the federal government’s tougher impaired driving laws, which came into effect across Canada on Tuesday. “Canada currently has some of the highest death rates and injury rates. We expectRead More

It’s been 20 years since an impaired driver injured two of Lisa Lindahl’s daughters, but the memory is no less painful.

“We are very lucky they are alive. But it has become a life goal now to stop impaired driving,” said Lisa Lindahl, director of victims services with MADD Regina.

Now the director of victims services for MADD Regina, Lindahl welcomes the federal government’s tougher impaired driving laws, which came into effect across Canada on Tuesday.

“Canada currently has some of the highest death rates and injury rates. We expect approximately 20 per cent reduction in impaired driving crashes,” said Lindahl.

Under the new regulations, police will have the power to demand a breath sample from any driver they stop. Previously, officers had to suspect a driver was impaired.

“People who don’t necessarily show signs of impairment, it gives us that added availability to conduct a roadside test with them,” said Cst. Nolan Bespalko, an officer with the Regina Police Service’s combined traffic service.

The goal is to increase detection, and deter others from getting behind the wheel impaired. It’s a system already in place in more than 40 countries.

While some are concerned about warrantless searches, many Regina drivers told CTV they have no problem with the changes.

Bespalko said those who follow the law, have nothing to worry about.

“It’s a short term inconvenience for a long term gain, which is really reducing impaired driving,” said Bespalko.

The new rules also increase the maximum prison term for many alcohol-impaired driving offences from five years to 10. It also ups the maximum penalties for impaired driving, with a first offence bringing a mandatory minimum fine of $1,000.

]]>Actress and director Penny Marshall dies at age 75http://worldnewsweekly.ca/actress-and-director-penny-marshall-dies-at-age-75/
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:57:00 +0000http://worldnewsweekly.ca/actress-and-director-penny-marshall-dies-at-age-75/Jake Coyle, The Associated Press Published Tuesday, December 18, 2018 1:57PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 18, 2018 3:11PM EST NEW YORK — Penny Marshall, who starred in “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75. Marshall’s publicist, Michelle Bega, said Marshall died in her Los Angeles home on Monday due to complications from diabetes. “Our family is heartbroken,” the Marshall family said in a statement. Marshall starred as Laverne DeFazio, the Milwaukee brewery worker, alongside Cindy Williams in theRead More

NEW YORK — Penny Marshall, who starred in “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75.

Marshall’s publicist, Michelle Bega, said Marshall died in her Los Angeles home on Monday due to complications from diabetes. “Our family is heartbroken,” the Marshall family said in a statement.

Marshall starred as Laverne DeFazio, the Milwaukee brewery worker, alongside Cindy Williams in the hit ABC comedy “Laverne & Shirley.” The series, which aired from 1976 to 1983, was among the biggest hits of its era.

It also gave Marshall her start as a filmmaker. She directed several episodes of “Laverne & Shirley” before making her feature film directorial debut in “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” the 1986 comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg.

Her next film made Marshall the first woman to direct a film that grossed more than $100 million. Her 1988 hit comedy “Big,” starring Tom Hanks, was about a 12-year-old boy who wakes up in the body of a 30-year-old New York City man. The film earned Hanks an Oscar nomination.

Marshall reteamed with Hanks for “A League of Their Own,” the 1992 comedy about the women’s professional baseball league begun during World War II. That, too, crossed $100 million, making $107.5 million domestically.

A Bronx native, Marshall became a dedicated Los Angeles Lakers fan, and a courtside regular. Her brother Garry Marshall, who died in 2016, was also one of Hollywood’s top comedy directors. Penny Marshall was married to Michael Henry for two years in the 1960s and to the director Rob Reiner from 1971-1981. Their daughter Tracy Reiner is an actress; one of her first roles was a brief appearance in her mother’s “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”

Marshall is also survived by her older sister, Ronny, and three grandchildren.

]]>Lack of personal support workers keeps Ottawa woman stuck in hospitalhttp://worldnewsweekly.ca/lack-of-personal-support-workers-keeps-ottawa-woman-stuck-in-hospital/
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:39:00 +0000http://worldnewsweekly.ca/lack-of-personal-support-workers-keeps-ottawa-woman-stuck-in-hospital/Joanne Schnurr, CTV Ottawa Published Tuesday, December 18, 2018 1:39PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 18, 2018 6:54PM EST A province-wide shortage of personal support workers is keeping some patients hospital-bound. The cost to our health system is astronomical, but the cost to the mental state of those patients, immeasurable. One Ottawa woman is so desperate to leave the hospital; she fears she’s spiraling downwards. She’s been at Saint Vincent Hospital for a year and a half, ready to be discharged but no one to care for her. Three hoursRead More

A province-wide shortage of personal support workers is keeping some patients hospital-bound.

The cost to our health system is astronomical, but the cost to the mental state of those patients, immeasurable. One Ottawa woman is so desperate to leave the hospital; she fears she’s spiraling downwards. She’s been at Saint Vincent Hospital for a year and a half, ready to be discharged but no one to care for her.

Three hours a day. That’s all Christine Benoit says she needs to help her return home to her apartment in Kanata. Instead, she remains at Saint Vincent Hospital where she’s been for more than a year, physically at any rate. But her mind is elsewhere.

“I’m long gone,” she says, “I want to run away but I know that’s not a possibility because I need the support.”

The 44-year-old has multiple sclerosis and needs the help of a personal support worker (PSW) to get her in and out of bed. But a province-wide shortage of PSW’s means that while she’s ready to be discharged, she can’t leave.

“The doctor has wanted to kick me out since August of this year,” she joke, “Every time he comes in, he says “What are you still doing here?”

Amy Porteous is with Bruyere Continuing Care, the umbrella organization for Saint Vincent Hospital, “Being in a hospital when they could be at home,” she says, “It’s more preferable that they are getting cared for in their own home.”

There are about 8 other patients like Christine in the same position, according to Chantele LeClerc who is the CEO of the Champlain LHIN, the local health integration network. These patients are well enough to be discharged but cannot due to a lack of support at home and the cost to both them and the health system is staggering.

According to statistics from the Champlain LHIN, a continuing care bed at Saint Vincent costs about $560 a day. An acute care bed is about a thousand a day. Compare that to a home-care client at less $30 a day.

The problem, though, is attracting people to this profession.

“We don’t have a problem getting nursing organized in a timely way,” says LeClerc, “Really, it’s the support workers. The challenge has been securing, recruiting and maintaining the amount of personal support workers that’s needed. Over last several years, we have continued to grow home care services we are delivering, but the human resources haven’t kept pace with that.”

She adds that it is not a question of funding, “At the moment in our region, it’s not a financial issue. We have the funds available to supply more home care services.It’s an issue of the providers who provide the home care on our behalf hiring these individuals and securing their services.”

Salaries are just above the minimum wage level and often the work involves split shifts and extensive travel time. But there are solutions in the works. The Champlain LHIN has teamed up with the providers who hire personal support workers to see if there’s a better way to utilize these PSW’s. But that’s a long term solution.

In the short term, Christine Benoit remains at Saint Vincent, waiting and worrying.

“I don’t want to go crazy,” she says, her voice breaking, “My mind right now is probably the only thing that works.”

]]>Thirty dogs and puppies surrended to London shelterhttp://worldnewsweekly.ca/thirty-dogs-and-puppies-surrended-to-london-shelter/
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:18:09 +0000http://worldnewsweekly.ca/thirty-dogs-and-puppies-surrended-to-london-shelter/The Humane Society of London & Middlesex is asking for public help after 30 animals were surrendered to the shelter. Among the animals surrendered was a nursing mother with six puppies and another dog with a pronounced hear murmur. No details have been released about where the animals are from or in what kind of living conditions they were found. Steve Ryall, HSLM executive director, said in a statement, “We were certainly not expecting such an influx of puppies and dogs to the shelter. We are appealing to the communityRead More

The Humane Society of London & Middlesex is asking for public help after 30 animals were surrendered to the shelter.

Among the animals surrendered was a nursing mother with six puppies and another dog with a pronounced hear murmur.

No details have been released about where the animals are from or in what kind of living conditions they were found.

Steve Ryall, HSLM executive director, said in a statement, “We were certainly not expecting such an influx of puppies and dogs to the shelter. We are appealing to the community to make financial contributions.”

The humane society says it’s already a busy time of year, and the influx of animals will mean extra expenses for veterinary care, food, cleaning and grooming.

According to the non-profit organization, which gets no direct government funding, it provides second chances for over 2,000 animals each year.

]]>Aberfoyle gas station robbed at gunpointhttp://worldnewsweekly.ca/aberfoyle-gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:02:00 +0000http://worldnewsweekly.ca/aberfoyle-gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/A gas station was reportedly robbed at gunpoint early on Tuesday morning. It happened on Brock Road South near McLean Road in Aberfoyle. Around 1:15 a.m., two male suspects reportedly entered the gas station and pointed a handgun at the attendant. They were given an unknown amount of cash and cigarettes and fled in a vehicle. Uniformed officers were on-scene on Tuesday morning to investigate the incident. Anyone with information regarding the incident is encouraged to contact police or Crime Stoppers. Source link #canadiannews #worldnews #headlinenews and stories from aroundRead More

]]>http://worldnewsweekly.ca/black-mirror-on-bbc-world-news-deddeh-howard-raffael-dickreuter/feed/13Court hears victim impact statements from family of woman killed in impaired driving crashhttp://worldnewsweekly.ca/court-hears-victim-impact-statements-from-family-of-woman-killed-in-impaired-driving-crash/
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:34:00 +0000http://worldnewsweekly.ca/court-hears-victim-impact-statements-from-family-of-woman-killed-in-impaired-driving-crash/Family and friends of a woman who was killed in a crash on a northwest street over two year ago were in court to read victim impact statements on Monday. Police were called to a rollover crash on Memorial Drive on July 2, 2016 at about 3:00 a.m. A Ford Fusion was speeding eastbound on the roadway when it crashed into a raised median on 5A Street N.W. and rolled onto its roof. Kanaye Renfrew, 30, was in the front seat and was pronounced dead at the scene and anotherRead More